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yuiyoshida

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2. This shocks me....

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 06:42 PM

Oct 2013

"Tsunami waves topped 60 feet or more as they broke onshore following Japan’s earthquake, according to some of the first surveys measuring the impact along the afflicted nation’s entire coast. Some waves grew to more than 100 feet high, breaking historic records, as they squeezed between fingers of land surrounding port towns."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-04-24-Japan-record-tsunami-waves.htm

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New FOOTAGE of the Tsunami from 2011 showing waves hit landfall [View all] yuiyoshida Oct 2013 OP

The ocean comes in, and in, and in, and in. When I was young I thought tsunamis were a big crashing uppityperson Oct 2013 #1

This shocks me.... yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #2

The scientific definition of "tsunami" in Japan Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #3

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